Senior II Data Scientist

Akamai Career Site; España; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design and deploy creative ML models for application security. You will work with data, build detection rules, and drive improvements across teams in a highly distributed environment.

By analysing trillions of records daily and collaborating with security engineers, you will influence product strategy and performance while ensuring scalable, production-ready analytics in a global context.

Qualifications

• Experience analysing very large datasets and deriving actionable insights.
• Strong foundation in probability, statistics, and machine learning techniques.
• Ability to build and deploy detection rules and models for security products.

Responsibilities

• Analyse large customer datasets and build models to improve detection accuracy.
• Develop and implement detection rules to enhance product effectiveness.
• Improve data collection, processing and analysis in production environments.
• Troubleshoot production issues in distributed systems.

Skills

SQL

Python

Probability

Statistics

Tools

Spark

Python

Job description

Does developing creative machine learning models addressing application security threats get your head churning?

Join us and use data science to make a positive impact!

Join our Global Web Security group!

Our team is part of the Cloud Security organization. We are responsible for the technologies powering Akamai's security products and protecting some of the world's major internet brands. Working in partnership with other development teams, we design and create highly scalable solutions.

Partner with the best

In this role, you'll play a key part in strengthening security products by analyzing data, addressing customer challenges, and driving product improvements. You'll collaborate across teams to implement solutions, enhance detection accuracy, and provide insights that shape strategy and performance.

As a Senior Data Scientist, on a typical day you will be:

• Analysing large customer datasets (trillions of records a day), gaining insights and building models.
• Developing and implementing detection rules and models to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of the security products.
• Improving processes to collect, manipulate, present, and analyze large datasets in a production-ready environment
• Troubleshooting production issues in a very distributed environment

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have experience working on large datasets using SQL/Spark and Python.
• Have a good understanding of probability, statistics and machine learning algorithms/techniques.
• Demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills and enjoy troubleshooting to identify and resolve complex issues.
• Have the confidence to speak up in front of senior or principal data scientists and engineers.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

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